Dirigible automobile lamp-bracket.



A. J. SAVILLE. DIRIGIBLE AUTOMOBILE LAMP BRACKET.

APPLIOAI'I-QN FILED MAY 10, 1912.

Patented Feb. 18, 1913.

ALLEN J. SAVILLE, OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.

DIRIGIBLE AUTOMOBILE LAMP-BRACKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 18, 1913.

Application filed Kay 10, 1912. Serial No. 696,459.

To all whom itmay'boncem Be it known that I, ALLEN J. SAVILLE, a citizenof the United States, residing at Richmond, in the county of Henrico andState of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inDirigible Automobile Lamp-Brackets, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention appertains to improvements in dirigible automobile lamps,its object being to provide means for actuating the lamp standardsthrough connection with the steering mechanism whereby the rays of thelamps may be turned in thedirection or caused to follow the movement ofthe steering wheels, at all timelighting up the path of the vehicle inrounding curves.

It is further contemplated in carrying out my invention to provide anovel form of connection between the steering and lamp bars toaccommodate for vibrations or resilient action of the vehicle.

My device is extremely simple and vmay be easily attached to automobilesof any standard make for performing the function hereinbefore mentioned.

For a full understanding of the present invention, reference is to behad to the following description and the accompanying drawings, inwhich- 7 Figure 1 is a front elevation of an automobile having mymechanism attached thereto; Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof with thelamps omitted; Fig. 3is an enlarged detail view, parts being broken awayand in section to show more clearly my device; Fig. 4 is a verticalsectional view on the line 5-5 of Fig. 3; Fig. 5 is a side elevationshowing more clearly the connecting arm between the lamp shifting andsteering bars; and Fig. 6 is a detail view of the connecting arm alone.

Throughout the following detail descrip-' tion and on the severalfigures of the drawings, similar parts are referred to by like referencecharacters.

Referring to the drawings and specifically describing my invention, 1designates the frame of an automobile supported at the front portion onthe usual springs '2. At a suitable place on the frame 1 at each side ofthe automobile are provided casings 3, located beneath the lamps 4.Housed within thecasings 3' and fixedly secured to the lam standardsv 5are horizontally disposed toot ed sectors, or wheels, 6, meshing at lampshifting bar 11.

While under ordinary conditions the sides of the openings 8 in thecasings 3 would guide the rack bars 7, I preferably provide leaf springs12 secured to the inner walls .of said casings, the free. ends of whichbear against said bars and hold them in mesh with the sectors 6, saidsprings, however, permitting longitudinal movement of the bars inoperation of the device.

' At suitable points at each side near the end portions of the lampshifting bar 11 are located the connecting bars 13. The connecting armsare mounted upon the steering bar at their lower ends, extending for-'wardly and upwardly into the sleeves .13.

depending from and formed integrally with the lamp shifting bar 11. Theupper ends of the connecting arms extend lnto the sleeve 13 a suitabledistance and permits of vertical movement in said sleeve to accommodatefor vibration or resilient movement a of the body of the vehicle on thes rings 2. While I have illustrated in the drawin two of theseconnectingarms, it will understood that one would sutiice to perform thefunction equally as well.

The operative connection between the steering bar and pillar is of theusual type and it will be apparent from the fforegoing description thatthe slightest movement of the steering bar through the levers 9 willmove the rack bars 7 forwardly or rearwardly, turning. the lampssimultaneously with and in the directionof travel of the steeringwheels. 7

The casings 3 house the gearing in a neat manner and protect thesamefrom dust.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is: I

L'Lamp operating mechanism for vehicles comprising lamp standards,toothed sectors'secured to said standards, longitudinally arranged rackbars. intermcshing with said sectors, a lamp shiftin bar bell cranklevers pivotally secured to t e vehicle at opposite sides thereof andhaving one of their arms connected to the rack bars and the other oftheir arms connected with the extremities of the lamp shifting baraforesaid, means operatively connecting the lamp shifting and steeringbars, casings carried by the vehicle in which said sectors are housedand having openings through which the rack bars aforesaid pass, andsprings secured to the walls of the casings to hold the rack bars inmesh with the sectors.

2. Lamp operating mechanism for vehicles comprising lamp standards,toothed sectors secured to said standards, longitudinally arranged rackbars intermeshing with the sectors, bell crank levers pivotally securedto the. vehicle at opposite sides thereof, onevof their arms beingconnected with the rear extremities of the rack bars, a lamp shiftingbar connected at each end with the other arms of the bell crank leversand WM. S. WOODBON, ALBERT T. AUGUST.

